You try to fix the checkpoint, but find you are unable to. You don't know the first thing about a checkpoint's engineering. Frankly, you never questioned how the things were made, or why there were so many of them convieniently placed about the dimension. They could be magic, or operate on a far stranger principle.

You decide it's not safe to stick around, and you take off running. Dragging Vermilion's dead body along, you end up back at the entrance of the Tower. You try to open the door, but it's locked. Not again!

A. Use Vermilion as a battering ram.B. Kindly ask the door to unlock itself.C. Angrily yeet Vermilion through the second-story window.D. Walk around to the back entrance.

You decide to leave The Tower and take Vermilion back to Dimension VVVVVV. Surely you should be able to find a checkpoint around here... right?

However, something unusual is happening since you've left. All of the checkpoints in the overworld are broken, the plating around the letter cracked and rusting. When you touch them, they don't light up and they don't save your progress. Something--or someone--has been wrecking them...

A. Run away! Not safe!B. Look for working checkpoints elsewhere (the space station, the lab, the tower, etc.)C. Try to fix a checkpoint.D. Stand around doing nothing like a dumbass and see if anything happens while you wait.

You briefly mourn the loss of Vermilion, until you remember that you can just bring him to a checkpoint to revive him. At least, you hope you can. It's worth a shot.

You're not sure where you would find a checkpoint in The Tower. You can look for one in The Tower... or maybe it would be best to go to a dimension you're familiar with.

A. Leave Vermilion here until you find a checkpoint.B. Drag Vermilion's body into the elevator and look for a checkpoint (pick a floor to search).C. Leave The Tower and take Vermilion back to Dimension VVVVVV.D. Go somewhere else (please specify).

A. Mourn his loss.B. Drag his body into the elevator to find a place to bury it.C. Go find a defibrillator and try to bring him back to life.D. Stick the wooden cross down your throat so you can die and be with him.

You decide to declare vengeance on whoever nailed Vermilion! Then you ask Vermilion where he wants to go.

"Oh, I don't know, a hospital maybe?" He says, staring at the pool of blood coming out of him as he lays on the floor.

A. Take him to the hospital.B. Drag Vermilion into the elevator and look for a hospital.C. Go find a hospital by yourself and come back for Vermilion later.D. Lay down alongside him and make a snow angel, but in the blood.